katrinel
New Member
Well this has been such a learning experience. I first started with a 29g tank with nothing but live rock, live sand and 2 fish.. The tank was overrun with algae. I had no knowledge of reef tanks at all and the tank was covered in hair algae. I saw the algae and thought it was hopless. I now realize that I could have saved all that live rock and sand but instead I tossed it. ( I sttill cringe when I think of that).
Here is the picture of the tank I got from my brother.
After doing some research and realizing that starting something you have no knowledge about is the worste thing you can do! It cost me a lot of money having to go and buy all new live rock. Before i learned about LR i thought why on earth would some aquarium rock cost anymore than a few dollars! And I am still a complete newbie making bad mistakes but I am learning.
My next step was researching everything I could!
Lighting was going to have to remain what It was just one 65 watt 10k pc and one 55 watt actinic pc. for a grand total of 120 watts of pc lighting. I bought 2 new powerheads and a protein skimmer. I bought live rock and live sand. I bought mushrooms and some LPS. 2 cleaner shrimp, and some fish. This was all over a period of about 11 months. I only lost one fish in the 29g and one cleaner shrimp. I had a battle with red slime, and I struggled with low lighting but other then that nothing bad happend oh except the time my heater broke and i touched the water and got a major shock!. I was lucky.
This is what my 29 gallon tank last looked like.
Last month on a whim I decided to go bigger!
I purchased a 40 gallon breeder tank and a new stand. I also upgraded my lighting to a coralife aqualight pro 36". Things are still settling in. I lost another fish due too 2 mantis shrimps that came as hitchkikers. The fishes jaw got split in half! I still have my same skimmer a seaclone
It works okay but not as good as a higher quality one.
So here are some pictures from my new tank!
Well thats all!
Here is the picture of the tank I got from my brother.
After doing some research and realizing that starting something you have no knowledge about is the worste thing you can do! It cost me a lot of money having to go and buy all new live rock. Before i learned about LR i thought why on earth would some aquarium rock cost anymore than a few dollars! And I am still a complete newbie making bad mistakes but I am learning.
My next step was researching everything I could!
Lighting was going to have to remain what It was just one 65 watt 10k pc and one 55 watt actinic pc. for a grand total of 120 watts of pc lighting. I bought 2 new powerheads and a protein skimmer. I bought live rock and live sand. I bought mushrooms and some LPS. 2 cleaner shrimp, and some fish. This was all over a period of about 11 months. I only lost one fish in the 29g and one cleaner shrimp. I had a battle with red slime, and I struggled with low lighting but other then that nothing bad happend oh except the time my heater broke and i touched the water and got a major shock!. I was lucky.
This is what my 29 gallon tank last looked like.
Last month on a whim I decided to go bigger!
I purchased a 40 gallon breeder tank and a new stand. I also upgraded my lighting to a coralife aqualight pro 36". Things are still settling in. I lost another fish due too 2 mantis shrimps that came as hitchkikers. The fishes jaw got split in half! I still have my same skimmer a seaclone
It works okay but not as good as a higher quality one.
So here are some pictures from my new tank!
Well thats all!
Miagi!
